Hello there I would like to have some information. I have a SUSE 10 on my compurter and I would like to uptodate it with SUSE11. Is it possible? If yes how I will be able to do it? or to know where to look in the web. ciao Roberto -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Thursday 26 February 2009 22:59:36 roberto.tonani@libero.it wrote:
Hello there I would like to have some information. I have a SUSE 10 on my compurter and I would like to uptodate it with SUSE11. Is it possible?
It depends a little on what you mean by "SUSE 10" and "SUSE 11". There is something called SLES (or SLED) 10 and 11, which are the enterprise versions, and then there are the openSUSE versions, which all have decimal versions (10.0, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 11.0, 11.1) You can upgrade from SLES/SLED 10 to SLES/SLED 11 (when it's released), and you can upgrade from an older openSUSE version to a newer one. Only the single step upgrades have really been tested
If yes how I will be able to do it?
Simply boot from the installation DVD of the version you want to upgrade to, select "install" from the initial boot screen, and after a few screens the system will ask you what you want to do, install a new system, or upgrade an existing one. You then select to upgrade an existing system, and follow the prompts If you have installed a lot of third party packages, there may be some work to do in the package selection, but other than that, it should be relatively straight-forward Anders -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 1:59 PM, roberto.tonani@libero.it
Hello there I would like to have some information. I have a SUSE 10 on my compurter and I would like to uptodate it with SUSE11. Is it possible? If yes how I will be able to do it? or to know where to look in the web. ciao Roberto -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Do: http://en.opensuse.org/Update_SUSE_to_next_version And use: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-stable/ Hope this works for you. It worked for me before. Or if you want, use 11.0 instead of 11.1 which is openSUSE-stable. Anders, what about this method? Allen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Thursday 26 February 2009 23:11:53 Allen Zhu wrote:
http://en.opensuse.org/Update_SUSE_to_next_version [...] Anders, what about this method?
I have used it (or something similar to it) in the past. At one point, my server went from suse 8.something (8.1 or 8.2, can't remember) to 9.3 without ever booting from the cd. But it can present problems, and it's not a method I would recommend to someone who isn't highly experienced at solving sometimes critical problems. As a small example, at one update, rpm got updated to a version which was incompatible with the previous version of glibc, before glibc was updated, and then the update got interrupted. rpm then refused to start. It wasn't overly difficult to solve (rpm2cpio worked, so I manually unpacked the new version of glibc) , but I wouldn't recommend placing other people in similar situations, if you're not very sure of their competency level. I would make the warning at the top of that page bigger. However, in 11.1 I'm told zypper can handle this, so it may be something we can do when 11.2 comes out. Anders -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 2/26/09, Anders Johansson
On Thursday 26 February 2009 23:11:53 Allen Zhu wrote:
http://en.opensuse.org/Update_SUSE_to_next_version [...] Anders, what about this method?
I have used it (or something similar to it) in the past. At one point, my server went from suse 8.something (8.1 or 8.2, can't remember) to 9.3 without ever booting from the cd.
But it can present problems, and it's not a method I would recommend to someone who isn't highly experienced at solving sometimes critical problems. As a small example, at one update, rpm got updated to a version which was incompatible with the previous version of glibc, before glibc was updated, and then the update got interrupted. rpm then refused to start.
It wasn't overly difficult to solve (rpm2cpio worked, so I manually unpacked the new version of glibc) , but I wouldn't recommend placing other people in similar situations, if you're not very sure of their competency level. I would make the warning at the top of that page bigger.
However, in 11.1 I'm told zypper can handle this, so it may be something we can do when 11.2 comes out.
Anders -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Yeah, But I think people need to update the wiki. The updating instructions point to: OpenSUSE-Stable or 10.3 Which is wrong. Just do a quick Google Search and that's the top result and it's real old. That's not good. Anyways, it's the method there right now. I mean, people who don't have fast connections take a long time to download it. Like I can download it in about 1 hours at work, 6 at home. Thanks, Allen Registered Linux User 484485 (http://counter.li.org/) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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